Here Are the Questions Congress Should Have Asked Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg spent hours this week testifying before the Senate and Congress, but the questions haven't been exactly great. Not only did Ted Cruz try and derail the conversation by talking about Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey's departure, but Zuckerberg also sat through a series of pointless questions about his time at Harvard.

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We've decided to reach out to some of the smartest and most-tapped-in journalists to see what your representatives should have asked. Here's what they said:

Joanna Stern — Personal Technology Columnist, Wall Street Journal

Lance Ulanoff — Reporter at Large

"Can you describe your concept of a simplified and obvious opt-in privacy policy?"

"Are there ways you could envision, aside activating on users data and not including charging members, Facebook could generate enough revenue to continue running a healthy business? If so, what are they?"

Mike Isaac — Reporter, The New York Times

"A.I. seems to be a common response of yours when answering long term questions about how to deal with questionable content. Why do you expect it to take five to ten years to get to an acceptable level to deal with Facebook content, and what will you do in the meantime? Clearly 20,000 contractors won’t be anywhere near adequate."

"Can you define which social media companies you see as Facebook's largest competition? Are they foreign or domestic? And do you see your data collection practices as an advantage to staging off competitors?"